Examples Of Tyrant In Julius Caesar

A tyrant is a cruel and oppressive leader who doesn’t care what his followers say, and all that is done is for the power that one can gain from such behavior, once the followers see that the dictator, ruler or leader is only upon the throne for the authority it gets very convoluted, but as the population does see the behavior at times it's already too late to do anything so the individuals have to wait for another voting, or maybe they caught it in time, so what do the people do then? They protest, but in Julius Caesar when the Dictator of Rome hasn’t proven such behavior, some few individuals have already drawn knives. When Gaius was indirectly flattered by Decius, the dictator came out to speak to the senate and conspirators, but just before the leader was to speak Metellus kneels down in the sense of flattery and asks if his dearest brother can return, “If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him, I spurn thee like a cur out of my way” (Shakespeare 107 45-46) Caesar automatically refuses and to add effect he says that the one who kneels down is kicked out of his way, which shows that Julius has no mercy for what he does, but does that necessarily mean he's a tyrant?

Not quite, because a lot of current leaders do whats right for the country and if that means ceasing someone out of the place then it's done for the good of it, although a misconception to my evidence comes because the readers aren’t really sure if the brother of Metellus was kicked out because of issues relating to Caesar or related to Rome. In relation, the reader can point out how the ruler refers to himself as the northern star “But I am constant as the northern star” (Shakespeare, 109, 60) The reference Julius made was about the star that never leaves or moves from the spot it remains, the reader can see that the infamous leader was referring to himself as a constant leader who doesn’t move from a decision he makes, which also means that he is always right, so even if the decision was made in anger it wouldn’t be changed by just some common plebeian bowing down on their knees to flatter into a change of mind, but if such a constant mind makes a decision good or bad, there is no going back. So in all honesty, was Caesar's assassination justice? The answer would be even on both sides, there is more to a problem if one knows about it, instead of such a cruel and bloody outcome, the conspirators should have kept a close eye on the man and when there is a situation where Rome is in trouble then bloody hands won't be a problem.